Dell Inspiron 1300 £387 inc delivery :)

rogerramjet

Goto https://www.dell.co.uk then goto Dell home systems on the next page click on the shop by e-value link in the first box place 305 and in the second N11135a

under the Basic at home 3 year tab chose 90-Day Collect and Return service [subtract £94.00]

then on the Primary Battery tab change that to 4 Cell 35Whr Primary Battery [subtract £11.75]

price then comes up at £387

I'd be tempted to keep the other battery mind, but not bad price for a wireless enabled laptop.

Base Intel® Celeron® M Processor 360 (1.40 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition, SP2
Memory 512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x256)
Keyboard Internal Keyboard (QWERTY)
Hard Drive 40GB (5.400rpm) Hard Drive
Modem Internal 56K v.92 Capable Fax Modem
CD/DVD Drives 24xCDRW/8xDVDComboDrive
Wireless Local Area Networking Dell Wireless 1370 802.11b/g Mini PCI Card

chuckles1066

great price, good find............the processor's the weak component unfortunately

Premier_2

There is nothing weak about the processor - I have a a laptop with the same processor and it does the job great.

It is the standard processor fitted to most entry level laptops - some use even slower processors. If you know of a new laptop sub-£400 with a more powerful processor, please feel free to start a new thread to post details!

Of course its not the fastest, most powerful processor available, but then I have a desktop if I want to start carrying out complicated video editing. (Note that the laptop as configured does not have a dvd writer anyway - only a dvd reader)

I would however agree that the smaller battery may not be a wise decision - I have a 43WH battery in my laptop & that barely lasts 2 hours. I'd opt for the 53WH battery for the extra £11.75 - afterall the advantage of a laptop is that you want it to be mobile.

Repo

And don't forget to purchase via Quidco or other cash back facililty. You can actually get this as low as £374

£399 using the code above
-£17 5% off pre-VAT amount with Quidco
-£ 8 2% purchases via an Egg money card until 10th December
=£373


PS: I wouldn't drop to the lower capacity battery either & the machine includes a CDRW/DVD so you can burn CDR/W's it's just that you can't burn DVD's. The chances are that you don't actually need to do this very often anyway so no great loss.

HTH